Zoe Kleinman: How AI visionary Jensen Huang was undone by his own bad decisions

It spawned a plethora of viral memes, seeing Huang as the man caught by the Coldplay kiss-cam with a married colleague , or singing along to George Michael's classic hit about betrayal, Careless Whisper. This week I met two Silicon Valley execs and I asked them how they were processing the news - "in memes", was the response. The stakes were too high, they said, the entire AI industry relies too heavily on Nvidia chips to break a winning formula.

But that was before rumours of a second affair surfaced, this time with a colleague, and the board decided he had gone too far. During the coronavirus lockdowns, he streamed keynote speeches from his kitchen (which gained internet fame in its own right, but were later revealed to have been AI-generated). He is rarely seen without a leather jacket – he has joked that he only owns one suit, and he borrows his daughter's partner's tie.

The last time I saw him was at St James' Palace last year, where he was receiving the prestigious Queen's Prize for Engineering.